Editing Makoto Matsumoto

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'''Makoto Matsumoto''' (松本眞, born February 18, 1965) is a [[wikipedia:Japanese people|Japanese]] [[wikipedia:mathematician|mathematician]] principally known as the inventor of the [[wikipedia:Mersenne Twister|Mersenne Twister]]<ref name=mersenne-acm>{{cite journal|last1=Matsumoto|first1=Makoto E.|last2=Nishimura|first2=Takuji|title=Mersenne Twister: A 623-Dimensionally Equidistributed Uniform Pseudo-Random Number Generator|journal=ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation|date=January 1998|volume=8|pages=3-30|doi=10.1145/272991.272995|url=https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/272991.272995}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.asahi.com/articles/ASN614CPTN5NULBJ009.html?iref=pc_photo_gallery_bottom|title="Rebirth into another world" in the world of mathematics: A craftsman enthralled by super random numbers|website=The Asahi Shimbun|language=ja|access-date=2023-06-11}}</ref> , a widely used [[wikipedia:pseudorandom number generator|pseudorandom number generator]].  He is also the author of the [[wikipedia:CryptMT|CryptMT]] [[wikipedia:Stream cipher|stream cipher]]<ref>{{cite book |title=New Stream Cipher Designs - The eSTREAM Finalists |date=Jan 2008 |pages=7-19 |doi=10.1007/978-3-540-68351-3_2|publisher=Springer |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/225325223_CryptMT3_stream_cipher}}</ref>.

==Career==

In Jan 1998, while an associate professor at Keio University<ref name=mersenne-acm />, he invented the [[wikipedia:Mersenne Twister|Mersenne Twister]] along with [[wikipedia:Takuji Nishimura|Takuji Nishimura]]. Two years later, he completed his Ph.D.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://ci.nii.ac.jp/naid/500000213515?l=en |title=Random number generators by M-sequences with high-dimensional equidistribution property,and their dynamic creation |website=CiNii Dissertations |publisher=University of Tokyo |date=2000-03-16 |access-date=2024-06-11}}</ref> on random number generators.

Until his retirement in Aug 2023, he was a professor at the Department of Mathematics, Graduate School of Science, [[wikipedia:Hiroshima University|Hiroshima University]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.math.sci.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/member-all.html |title=Members of Mathematics Department |website=Hiroshima University |access-date=2024-06-11}}
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==Awards==

* Kirkman Medal - 1997<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.the-ica.org/medals.php |title=ICA Medals |website=Institute of Combinatorics and its Applications |access-date=2024-06-11}}</ref>

* IBM Japan Science Prize - 1999<ref name="ibm-award">{{cite web|url=http://www-06.ibm.com/jp/company/society/science/p13th/matsumoto.html |title=IBM 科学の扉ー日本IBM科学賞ー歴代受賞者一覧 - Japan |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060517004836/http://www-06.ibm.com/jp/company/society/science/p13th/matsumoto.html |archive-date=May 17, 2006}}</ref>

* Japan Society for the Promotion of Science - 2008<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.chugoku-np.co.jp/Ad/menu/education/edu001.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220120053943/http://www.math.sci.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/m-mat/MT/chugoku-news.pdf|format=pdf|title=Chugoku News: Exploring 'Science' at Hiroshima University Graduate School of Science: High-Performance Random Number Program|website=Chugoku Shinbun|access-date=2024-06-11|archive-date=2022-01-20}}</ref>

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